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Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Unwritten Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity
My thoughts upon finishing The Unwritten: Oh no – I got myself hooked on yet another series. It’s not a bad thing, not exactly, but those long Vertigo graphic novels series tend to be heavy on my wallet. But on the other hand, O! the happiness they bring me. My life would be so much poorer without Fables or The Sandman. This is only volume one, and I almost don’t want to say it lest I jinx ...
Daemon
Have you ever been reading a book or watching a film and as the plot moves to involve some use of technology you begin to brace yourself, and the cringe as you are ripped out of the story by what is an obviously ignorant treatment of matters you know well? Do you find the idea of creating a "gui interface using visual basic" to see about tracking an ip address as more fit for a sitcom rather...
Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Ronald Reagan said famously and often, "Government isn’t the solution, it's the problem." Simply get out of the way of free markets, and it would be morning in America ad infinitum. Raj Patel, activist, scholar, and author of The Value of Nothing, is not high on either governments or 21st-century capitalism. He makes a compelling case that matters have gotten so out of whack that, rather tha...
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
How did your great grandparents ever figure out what to eat? Long before nutrition scientists began studying food, long before marketers began advertising food and long before the author Michael Pollan started writing about food, people, somehow, managed to eat more healthfully than they do now.
“We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not hav...
Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes for Everyone's Favorite Treats
Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero have written a new cookie cookbook that is the best addition to my baking cookbook collection this year. It has something for everyone, including cookies that are sweet, decadent, wholesome, fun, and fancy. And, of course, they’re all vegan.
The Mexican Chocolate Snickerdoodles are chocolaty and chewy with a cinnamon-sugar topping and a hint of heat...